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“Peter Brown, the historian often credited with creating the field of ‘late antiquity’, has a memoir out, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History. Born in 1935 in Ireland, this is a snapshot of growing up in the last days of the British Empire (his father worked in Sudan) and what it was like as an Irish Protestant in the UK, as well as a lot of details on Brown’s intellectual formation and influences. The memoir is nearly 700 pages but Brown is a beautiful writer, and he has nice, wry observations about all sorts of things. If you know someone who enjoys intellectual memoirs, this is a rather lovely one.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Early Summer 2023
Sophie Roell, Journalist
“Peter Brown’s intellectual memoir Journeys of the Mind – A Life in History (Princeton University Press, 2023) is an extraordinary book, recounting the intellectual development of an extraordinary scholar.”
"The many worlds of Peter Brown" by Peter Sarris, Engelsberg Ideas, August 1st, 2023
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